Pharmacy Apprentice; Per Diem; Hospital - New York, United States - Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai
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New York, United States

3 weeks ago

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Description

Description

Prepares medications for inpatients, outpatients and employees as per departmental policies and ensures verification of each transaction by a pharmacist prior to dispensing.


Responsibilities

  • Compounds sterile and nonsterile products as per protocol, ensuring final verification by a pharmacist.
  • Dispenses (with pharmacist supervision) and maintains accurate records of dispensing controlled substances, taxfree alcohol and investigational new drugs.
  • Demonstrates ability to operate required equipment, e.g., unitdose repackaging, total parenteral nutrition compounder, laminar flow hoods, etc.
  • Ensures an adequate inventory of medications and supplies is maintained. Routinely checks for and removes expired medications from inventory.
  • Audits controlled drug disposition records for patient care units and reports discrepancies and unusual use patterns to a manger or director.
  • Maintains an accurate, current census, including cassette bin labels, for all assigned areas.
  • Returns reusable medication to stock before the end of the shift.
  • Accurately fills unitdose cassettes and performs statistical count of all doses dispensed.
  • Conducts all required deliveries and other patient care rounds in a timely fashion.
  • Obtains required signatures when conducting controlled substance deliveries.
  • Assures effective exchange of unitdose cassettes as per established schedules.
  • Maintains a safe, clean working environment.
  • Maintains stat box contents. Ensures posting of drug lists in the pharmacy, on the transfer carts, and at the patient care units.
  • Conducts monthly inspections of nursing stations, instructing nursing personnel when necessary to correct deficiencies, and retrieving medications not included on floor stock lists.
  • Assists the pharmacist in providing drug information and in profiling patient medications.
  • Conducts other professional functions under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.
  • Completes all required documentation
  • Performs all other Technician I and Technician II related functions.

Qualifications

  • 3 years minimum completed at an accredited college of pharmacy.
  • Previous hospital pharmacy experience preferred. English proficiency, oral and written.
  • Valid New York State Pharmacy Intern Permit required.
Non-Bargaining Unit, 18- Pharmacy - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care.

When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together.

We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:


  • Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
  • Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing sidebyside in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
  • Inspiring and fostering an environment of antiracist behaviors among and between departments and coworkers.


At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.

We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients.

We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history


"About the Mount Sinai Health System:
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve.

Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.

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EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Compensation


The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements.

The salary range for the role is $ $27.45 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experie
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